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...rage: "Age and education give you the authority, citizenship the responsibility, to rage against the mediocrity and injustice in your society, more especially in yourself. Heed Dylan Thomas: 'Do not go gentle into that good night . . ./ Rage, rage against the dying of the light...
...sanitationmen follow DeLury's lead for, over 37 years, they have come to trust him; they know he will secure the best possible deal for them. The NYUSA is a "voluntary membership association" and yet all 11,333 sanitation workers belong. Even when there is some uncertainty, the members heed DeLury's advice. The best example of this faith is the NYUSA's support of Lindsay during his re-election campaign...
Ethnic Factors. Heed advice from a woman doctor? Many said no. Twenty percent, which Engleman calls "a significant number," would not take drugs prescribed by a woman, and 48% said that they would seriously question a woman's recommendation to enter a hospital for treatment or tests. The study also turned up some contrasts in attitudes that seem to be linked to educational, ethnic and age factors. Among those with less than an eighth-grade education, 85% preferred a male doctor, compared with 73% among the college-educated. One notable disparity: 54% of the Puerto Rican patients thought women...
What little attention New Hampshire voters are giving to their presidential primary has been concentrated on the Democrats. They have paid scant heed to President Nixon's two rivals on the Republican side, a brace of U.S. Representatives who differ drastically in ideology but otherwise turn out to have a good deal in common. They are California's Paul ("Pete") McCloskey, 44, a Kennedy-esque Marine Reserve colonel who wants the U.S. out of Viet Nam at once, and Ohio's John Ashbrook, 43, a deep-dyed conservative who deplores Nixon's "leftward drift" on welfare...
Would the nation pay heed to such an opposition encampment? It is inconceivable that the television networks, newspapers and magazines would not assign men to the shadow. There could be one or two press briefings a day, similar to those in the functioning White House. Thus Walter Cronkite could have a film clip on what went on in the aspirant's Administration for his evening newscast. Shadow Cabinet officers could debate their opposite numbers in office, or counter White House claims of benefit or progress...